Well, there is another kind of monster that lives in my house. He may live in your house too. He is the cousin of the sock monster. He is the pacifier monster.
I know he is around because I had purchased 8 pacifiers for each child (that is 24 pacifiers) and our numbers are dropping. Claire has 6 left, Jake has 5 and Quinn, the kid that likes the pacifier the most, has 2 left. I don't know what is it about Quinn's green pacifiers but apparently they are the tastiest.Well, this taking of pacifiers needs to stop. See, we are about 2 months away from beginning the process of getting rid of the baby's pacifiers and I refused to buy more.
Dear Mr Pacifier Monster,
I know you are there. I can't see you but I know you are there, hiding up in the baby's room. Waiting. Just waiting for the right moment to take those pacifiers and make them your lunch.
Your presences is the only way that I can explain the disappearance of the pacifiers that were there one minute when I put the kids to bed and then are gone when I check on them later.
I know that you are taking them some where that I cannot get to. I have looked all over the house for those pacifiers and they are gone. You must have a spot somewhere very sneaky, you silly monster.
But all this pacifier taking has gotten a bit out of hand. It was especially annoying last night when you took the pacifier that I had just given Quinn. It was 3AM and it was the second time that I was up with him. I do not like being disturbed from my sleep. Especially, when I had already been up to replace his pacifier once.
I know he would have fallen right back to sleep if you had not taken the pacifier right from his mouth. Were you really that hungry that you couldn't have waited until he dropped it?
I am not mad, really, but please cut this out. How about this, I will stop looking for the pacifiers that you have stolen, I mean, found and you can keep them.
Just please stop taking the rest of them. When we are all done with them, I will leave them all just for you. And no one will take them from you again.
Thanks for your cooperation. I really appreciate it.
~A Mommy that really needs her sleep.
39 comments:
I am there with you 100%. My daughter had 4 binkies and was down to 1. Then another popped up unexpectedly and another but then one of them disappeared again. It's not a fun game.
lol. You know one of these days when the kids are all grown you will find a stash of pacifiers and go so that's where they went!
Well that explains it! Now we know what was going on when you told Mr. Linky your real name. You had a kid crying for a pacifier! Oh, I do NOT miss Mr. Pacifier Monster. at. all. Very cute, Jen!! Have fun today.
Very Cute! Have a wonderful Friday. (visiting via SITS)
Too funny! I refer to the places things disappear to as "the black hole." However, I recently discovered that it could also be called "the laundry hamper" and "under the entertainment center." Good luck!
ACK! The dreaded pacifier monster! Hope he goes away soon... and you can get some much deserved ZZZZs!
ha that was funny - my kids never took pacifers - so I have never had this issue!
I hope the Pacifier Monster takes you seriously and stops eating your binkies!!
If you see him, could you ask him to return ours. Thanks.
We had a pacifier monster too! Might you happen to have a sofa bed? The reason I ask....we had a sofa bed which we seldom used. Two years after my son gave up his pacifier, we found 3 stuffed inside the folded mattress! Apparently the Pacifier Monster is a very creative stasher!
I know exactly what you mean! Pacifiers disappear like magic around here.
the pacifier monster lives at our house too. don't worry, they will turn up someday :) sorry you were up so much last night, i hate nights like that! i hope tonight is better!
and by someday, i mean one day down the road when you think everyone has forgotten about them and then oops, one appears in the toy box and you have to begin the pacifier withdrawal process once again. (really, it happened with lydia!)
The pacifier monster resided at our house too. As soon as I weaned the tot, I found every single one. We have a collection of 8 now.
That is tooooooo funny!!
That is so true! Where do they go?
One morning, my 18 month old couldn't find her "binky". We looked all over the crib, but couldn't find it. I finally found it and stuck it in my pocket and acted like I still hadn't found it.
I told her it must be gone forever. It worked! Yes, the first night without it was hard, but she never had another binky after that.
SOMEWHERE in my parent's house (with whom we lived in the paci years) is a LARGE stash of paci's... maybe 15 or so of them if I counted correctly...
Dang monster.
My kids were anti-paci ... both a blessing and curse. Blessing because there are no paci-stealing Boobah's that live with us and curse because nothing shuts up a screaming baby better than a paci-plug.
Ah yes....we had the paci monster with Dos. And we find his hiding spots every once in a while.
Fun thing - when it was time to break him, the paci "FAIRY" came and left him a dvd for all his pacis :)
I feel you on the no sleep, but sadly there is no paci to fix my darling daughter's sleep problems. And she kicked the thumb habit a couple of months ago. I have a feeling now that you've outed him, the Pacifier Monster will not be so brazen in stealing innocent little babies pacis.
I have a sock monster and a bra monster... I know the bra monster is diabolical because I dont have tiny bras... I wear a DDD, and those suckers are expensive!! I wish I could trade my bra monster for a panty monster, because you can go without panties but not without a bra!
Thank goodness we never did pacifiers because it's those types of things you rely on that just always go missing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for stopping by my blog. We, too, have a pacifier monster. I'm convinced the monster is in cahoots with my baby because she has a talent for dropping the pacifiers between the crib rails against the wall in the middle of the night. Gotta love squeezing under the crib at 2 a.m. to fetch the wayward pacifier.
Oh yes, he lives in our house too!
LOL--now I have a vision of that orange creature surrounded by pacifiers!
Do you have those little clip things? My son used to always have his paci clipped to his shirt for easy access!
LOL! I've taken pics of pacifier stashes! Have you looked under the bed (under the mattress, between the wall and the headboard)? Under the mat of the playpen? In the bottom of the toybox? Under the couch cushions? I think that's where I found most of mine :)
mmmhmmmm...
luckily, Xander kicked the paci habit awhile back, but when he used 'em, we were ALWAYS looking for one!!!
I wonder where his secret lair is? :)
LOL I know what you mean!
I think he steals nail clippers too!
Great post!
sofie sucks her two middle fingers...and she still wakes up. so with your theory, does that mean a terrible mean monster is pulling her fingers out of her mouth? mean monster!!!
the socks are all at my place. There's a wormhole that apparently leads to my laundry room.
I know the pacifier monster intimately too. Fortunately, he can't bother me anymore.
We, however, do daily battle with the pencil thief.
I play the where is a binky game everyday. Where do they go??? Sometimes I think my kids must eat them.
I have an alternate theory. The babies are hiding the pacifiers in order to get all of them from you and hid before you begin to ween them. When you start to ween them, the babies will go get them one at a time out of their stash. This may sound far fetched, but it happened in our house. Middle child found and used the "lost" pacifiers for almost a year and a half.
That's how the pacifier came to an end at our house. There was one left that hadn't disappeared, and it was bitten all the way through. Showed it to Tiz "See, once it's broken it can't be fixed." (I was NOT going to Target that night!)
He looked it up and down, said, "O.K." and never looked back. The End.
But he's a man of few words. That would have never worked with Zip.
I feel your pain.
Stay away from the pacies green meanie!
We have a sock monster here... and a syringe monster...
Neither of my kids took a pacifier.. not for my lack of trying.. they just didn't like it.. so the Pacifier monster has never had to visit us..
Oh, if you find that little monster, shake him down for Jack's binkies too!
Yea, the pacifier monster lives at our house, too. Can't wait for pacifiers and sippies to be a thing of the past! Okay, I can, I don't want the kids to grow up too fast. But you know what I mean.
Neither of my boys would take pacifiers, so I didn't experience this in my house...but, I've watch a little boy two days a week who uses them, and I have now experienced what's it's like to lose them and search for them and NEED THEM DESPERATELY at nap time.
So, please, Pacifier Monster, give Jen a break!!
That monster use to live with us. That monster needs to be taught some manners, I'm tellin' ya! There were days I wanted to super glue those things to their top lip.
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